characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher
disapproval If you describe someone as pernickety, you think that they pay too much attention to small, unimportant details. Customs officials can get extremely pernickety about things like that. = fussy. worrying too much about small and unimportant things = fussy (Perhaps from particular)
used colloquially of one who is overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"
disapproval If you describe someone as persnickety, you think that they pay too much attention to small, unimportant details. He is a very rigorous man, very persnickety. = fussy. worrying too much about details that are not important - used to show disapproval (pernickety (19-21 centuries), perhaps from particular)